PIP Update

Marco Rubio and Ken Pruitt are "discussing" whether or not to hold a special session on PIP insurance. There is a proposal that should make insurance companies happy.

Details of the deal appear to this: Extend current PIP system until end of the year, while adopting a new system on Jan. 1. It would place limits on certain types of utilization: For example, no reimbursements for clinics unless ordered by a doctor, or if the clinic has been licensed for at least 3 years, or has a medical director. The bill would allocate $2 million for fraud prosecutors.

Details are scant about how citizens will be affected. That isn't Rubio's and Pruitt's most pressing concern. The insurance industry contributed to both men. Priorities come first. These two should reach a PIP deal sometime in the middle of 2008.